Anticipating More from Cortana
The most efficient personal assistants anticipate your needs by learning about your habits, environment, and preferences. Microsoft Research thinks electronic personal assistants should do the...
View ArticleFetchClimate—Harnessing the Cloud to Find and Share Environmental Data
FetchClimate, a tool from Microsoft Research that makes locating environmental information easy, is now available for research or study--or to satisfy personal curiosity.
View Article5 Ways Microsoft Will Enable Your PC to See, Sense, and Understand
At Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Techfair, researchers showed how they’re taking the PC in a new direction, combining machine vision with a new independence so they may recognize and interpret what the PC...
View ArticleMicrosoft's New Word Flow Keyboard Is the Best Smartphone Text Entry System
Windows Phone 8.1 is available as a Developer Preview and the new and improved Word Flow keyboard with shape writing is stunning. Microsoft researchers took an amazing keyboard and made it even better
View ArticleVirtual Earth plays out fate of life on the planet
The Madingley Model from Microsoft Research is a mathematical model that could help predict the future of the living organisms on Earth.
View ArticleVideo: Microsoft's Cortana Mixes AI with Human-Added Humour
Microsoft's smart virtual assistant for Windows Phone, Cortana, combines artificial intelligence with a clever sense of humor.
View ArticleThis Is Only a Test: A Virtual Ecosystem for Crashing (and Restoring) the...
The Madingley Model, a project from Microsoft Research Cambridge, focuses on creating a simulation model of all life on Earth.
View ArticleEnhancing Learning Through the Cloud
MyCloud, an e-learning platform from Microsoft Research, gives students and teachers an interactive space for collaboration, exploration, and enrichment.
View ArticleMicrosoft Wants You to Educate Its Virtual Assistant
Microsoft says the AI systems behind its new personal assistant will enable it to become much smarter as more people use it.
View ArticleA Cipher for Your Genome
Kristin Lauter of Microsoft Research discusses her work on practical homomorphic researrch and its application to genetics and genomics.
View ArticleWWT Brings Astronomy to Life for Children of All Ages
Microsoft Research is making a concerted effort to share high-quality research results, such as the WorldWide Telescope, with Asian educators.
View ArticleInspiring female hackers in Brazil
Rosiane de Freitas is an avid skier--and, as Juliana Salles of Microsoft Research Connections reports, also an enthusiastic supporter of the International Women's Hackathon.
View ArticleVideo: In the Rush to Hype AI, It’s Easy to Forget About Web Search
Microsoft keeps rolling out new features in Bing that it claims make it superior to, or at least more interesting, than Google’s search engine. They’re not the sexiest applications of artificial...
View ArticleVideo: Microsoft Research Shows Off Gesture-Based Keyboard
Microsoft Research's Type-Hover-Swipe project features a motion-sensing mechanical keyboard.
View ArticleFrom Drug Wars to 3-D Silhouettes
Microsoft researchers bring a wealth of inspiration to the CHI conference on human-computer interaction.
View ArticleFive Views of the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley TechFair
A repoorter surveys a sampling of the projects on display during Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley TechFair.
View ArticleHome Inkjet Printer Fabricates Circuit Boards on Photo Paper
The ink costs $500 a bottle, but only a few cents are needed to make a circuit.
View ArticleReproducible Research: Are We There Yet?
The reproducibility of research was the focus of the Collaboration Workshop run by the Software Sustainability Institute, held in March in Oxford, U.K.
View ArticleBasic Science Finds Corporate Refuge
As many older companies move away from fundamental research, young technology firms are picking up the slack.
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